Mick Hartley

Photographer Robin Weaver in the valleys, back in the day:

Pill, Newport, South Wales, 1974

Silver Jubilee fancy dress parade, Monmouth, Monmnouthshire, Wales, June 1977

Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, 1977

Portland Street, Pill, Newport, South Wales, 1974

Children playing on their way home from school, Rhymney, Wales, 1975

Girl minding a baby, Splott, Cardiff, Wales, 1974

Mr Parfitt, aged 84, last resident with his wife of old ironworkers’ cottages, Blaenavon, South Wales, 1972

Woodland Terrace, Aberbeeg, Abertillery, Gwent, Wales, 1976

Neighbours in Blaen-y-Cwm, Treherbert, Rhondda Fawr, South Wales

Shocked steelworkers are told that their plant is to be closed, Ebbw Vale Welfare Ground, South Wales, 1975

Treharris, South Wales, 1977

Women chatting in a street of boarded up houses awaiting demolition, Butetown (Tiger Bay), Cardiff, Wales, 1974

Children playing where old terraced houses have been demolished to make way for redevelopment, Pill, Newport, South Wales, 1974

A corner shop in Splott, Cardiff, Wales, 1974

Flower show, Llanfrechfa, Wales, 1976

Army bandsmen feeling the November cold, Remembrance Sunday parade, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales, 1977
[Photos: Robin Weaver]

Weaver's South Wales in the 1970s is available from Café Royal Books.